Biography: Lee Erwin, Lennox Berkeley, Lenny Dee, Lenny Gomulka, Leo Brouwer, Leo Delibes, Leo Diamond, Leo Sowerby, Léon Boëllmann, Leon Kirchner,

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Lee Erwin was one of the very few musicians fortunate enough to get to single-handedly revive a music genre Indeed, he was a unique musician in his heyday of the 1960s and 1970s, working with a musical form that had died at the end of the 1920s

Lennox Berkeley Biography, Photos, Pictures

Born into an aristocratic family, Berkeley was introduced to music by his father, a retired naval officer He attended Merton College, Oxford, earning a BA in modern languages in 1926

Lenny Dee was a versatile organist who enjoyed a Top 20 hit with “Plantation Boogie” in 1955 and recorded a series of albums He is best-known for being able to make his organ sound like a wide variety of other musical instruments

Lenny Gomulka Biography, Photos, Pictures

Lenny Gomulka began playing drums at the age of four During his early childhood days, he eagerly looked forward to playing along with the Sunday radio programs at home Following his mother’s wishes, he began taking trumpet lessons in parochial school at the age of 11

Brouwer studied for a short time at the Juilliard School under Vincent Persichetti and also at the Hartt College of Music He served as a music assistant for Radio Havana and as professor of composition at the Havana Conservatory

Comic opera, ballet, and opera bouffa were the forte of Delibes He was a student of his mother and uncle (the organist Batiste) and worked with Minkus with admirations for Wagner, Meyerbeer, and Bizet

Leo Diamond was the chief harmonica soloist, or virtuoso, recording in the “high-fidelity” LP era Formerly a flute and piccolo player, he won a contest playing harmonica with Edwin Franko Goldman’s band in New York City’s Central Park

After early study in piano and theory, exposure to the music of Franck motivated Sowerby to study the organ Early recognition as a composer came when The Chicago SO played his Violin Concerto in 1913

Léon Boëllmann Biography, Photos, Pictures

The most important work of this French organist and composer remains “Suite gothique” On the international circuit, Boellmann’s “Variations Symphoniques” gained prominence

Leon Kirchner Biography, Photos, Pictures

Leon Kirchner studied in California at the Los Angeles City College as well as at the University of California at Berkeley He had contact there with both Arnold Schoenberg and Ernst Bloch, both of whom influenced him profoundly on his thinking about music and his composing

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